Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Canada and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Joy Division to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wally Richardson,
Bronski Beat,
The Barracudas,
Big Daddy Kane,
Althea and Donna,
Letta Mbulu,
Neu!,
Spoonie Gee,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Easy Going,
T. Rex,
The Gories,
Grey Daturas,
Anthony Braxton,
Todd Terry,
Das Ding,
Jerry's Kids,
Jesper Dahlback,
Funkadelic,
The Monochrome Set,
The Gap Band,
Cecil Taylor,
Connie Case,
Ronan,
Flipper,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Cure,
Darondo,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rotary Connection,
Neil Young,
DJ Style,
B.T. Express,
L. Decosne,
Susan Cadogan,
The Selecter,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rakim,
Young Marble Giants,
Joy Division,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Aloha Tigers,
Newcleus,
The Fall,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Coltrane,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Derrick Morgan,
AZ,
the Association,
Clear Light,
KRS-One,
Tomorrow,
Barbara Tucker,
Idris Muhammad,
Ponytail,
Eric B and Rakim,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.